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Basically, by nature, as in He is in essence a very private person or In essence, they were asking the wrong question . This term employs essence in the sense of “intrinsic nature,†a usage dating from the mid-1600s.
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That, in essence, explained how the Tideline decided to handle the satire about the fire alarms.

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Though brief, it is the type of footage one would expect to see at a memorial service, which, in essence, is what this film was supposed to be.

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Perhaps the most vulgar thing that Trump did was to assert that divine intervention, in essence, God, prevented an assassination so that he could make America great again.

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Here, the ghost layered between us and the action works best when it makes us aware that each film is, in essence, a haunting.

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They would, in essence, "close that building down", he said, referring to FBI headquarters.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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